[PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
It seems Debian does not provide pdisk, neither in the "disks-powerpc" directory (where the MacOS version could be useful), nor in the base system for PowerPC. Is it for a licensing problem? I know no other gratis program to share a disk between MacOS and Linux partitions. PS: does anyone kn

Re: New PPC X server alpha (brown paper bag update)

2000-02-19 Thread Sinan Gurkan
Hello Giorgio On 19-Þub-00, you wrote: For example, if I do > ctrl-alt-+ to switch resolution, it hangs. yes same thing happens here with ctrl alt -+ -- Sinan Gürkan http://www.amigart.com http://sanalkultur.cjb.net A1300T + BlizzardPPC 166 Mhz + BvisionPPC 8MB + 64MB RAM

Re: More feedback (2)

2000-02-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Logan Hall wrote: >Latest nmap works on my biege G3 for localhost (127.0.0.1) but not for my >chosen hostname (allanon), is this the same problem you are getting? In my case (Lombard), nmap hangs in both situations. Sergio

Re: More feedback (2)

2000-02-19 Thread Logan Hall
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Furthermore: > > - pcmcia: any support for it? > - nmap: it (still) does not work on localhost Latest nmap works on my biege G3 for localhost (127.0.0.1) but not for my chosen hostname (allanon), is this the same problem you are getting? > -

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2000-02-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
(sorry) - how do I monitor the battery status? it would be nice if one of those panel applet would work, possibly advising about the time that is left and the eventual urge to shut-down immediately (which is of paramount importance). Sergio

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2000-02-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Furthermore: - pcmcia: any support for it? - nmap: it (still) does not work on localhost - gnu-prolog: not yet available on ppc (why?) - festival: (still) not available on ppc (why?) Cheers, Sergio

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2000-02-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hi, - irda: postinst failure - swiprolog: the trace triggers an error (see below) - apmd: not supported - what is supported then? - It would be a good thing to add proper help in the kernel APM section. - the HD of my Lombard does not want to sleep for more than a few seconds, alth

Re: New PPC X server alpha (brown paper bag update)

2000-02-19 Thread Giorgio Signori
Ciao Michel Dänzer, il 18-Feb-00 mi scrivi: MD> I've taken the chance and improved the glint (even more endianness and MD> accel improvements) and fbdev (now checks if monitor can display modes MD> ;) drivers. Hello, I tried it, and is quite faster :-) Unfortunately, it locks a lot, don't know if

RE: PowerPC in little endian mode

2000-02-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On 17-Feb-00 Patrick Lerda wrote: > PowerPC 603, 740, 750 don't have a true little endian support, but > some bridge like MPC106 > seems to be able to translate munged data to true little-endian mode > between CPU and PCI bridge, this > is enough to have a working full little-en

Re: Yaboot vs BootX

2000-02-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 04:32:06PM +, FASSINO Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hello, > > just a question about yaboot. > I'm using BootX to boot linux on my powerbook G3 and powermac G4. > > Does bootX will be maintained any more ? I am not the maintainer Ben is but I can say that using yaboot on `ne